Community Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Learners

Community Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Learners

Author: Kelly Lowther Pereira

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-12-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9027263809

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This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book’s purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language context, as well as to provide language educators and practitioners essential guidelines for designing community service-learning courses, with particular attention paid to the characteristics and needs of Spanish heritage language learners. This book presents compelling evidence demonstrating the central role community service-learning plays in developing heritage language learners’ identities, connections to the heritage language community, language attitudes, and social, cultural, and sociolinguistic awareness. Importantly, this book also addresses the often-overlooked perspectives of community partners and liaisons. As the first original research monograph on community service-learning for Spanish heritage language learners, this pioneering book will undoubtedly aid students, instructors and administrators across all levels of language education.


Spanish for Native Speakers

Spanish for Native Speakers

Author: Lynn A. Sandstedt

Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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SPANISH FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS, brings together some of the best known scholars in the field of Spanish-Language instruction, especially as concerns the "native" or "heritage" speaker. The following articles are accompanied by extensive bibliographies that are valuable resources for anyone interested in heritage speaker instruction.


Nuevos mundos

Nuevos mundos

Author: Ana Roca

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-12-06

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0470588985

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This book develops the communication and literacy skills of heritage Spanish speakers with exercises that are designed to improve oral and written proficiency in the language. Nuevos mundos uses the cultures and voices of the major Hispanic groups in the United States, as well as those of Latin America and Spain, to familiarize students with a variety of issues and topics, which are sometimes controversial and always thought-provoking.


Nuevos Mundos Workbook

Nuevos Mundos Workbook

Author: Ana Roca

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1118151429

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This book develops the communication and literacy skills of heritage Spanish speakers with exercises that are designed to improve oral and written proficiency in the language. Nuevos mundos uses the cultures and voices of the major Hispanic groups in the United States, as well as those of Latin America and Spain, to familiarize students with a variety of issues and topics, which are sometimes controversial and always thought-provoking.


La enseñanza del español a hispanohablantes

La enseñanza del español a hispanohablantes

Author: María Cecilia Colombi

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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This volume establishes guidelines and sets a foundation for future directions in teaching Spanish to native speakers. Leading scholars in the field address key issues faced by this growing segment of students, teachers, and researchers: the realities of the classroom, how to teach language through culture, whether a standard variety of Spanish exists, and whether it should be taught in the classroom. A discussion of the status of teaching Spanish to native speakers throughout the U.S. and recommendations for future action rounds out this important and timely book.


ADFL Bulletin

ADFL Bulletin

Author: Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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Dancing Home

Dancing Home

Author: Alma Flor Ada

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 144242396X

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In this timely tale of immigration, two cousins learn the importance of family and friendship. A year of discoveries culminates in a performance full of surprises, as two girls find their own way to belong. Mexico may be her parents’ home, but it’s certainly not Margie’s. She has finally convinced the other kids at school she is one-hundred percent American—just like them. But when her Mexican cousin Lupe visits, the image she’s created for herself crumbles. Things aren’t easy for Lupe, either. Mexico hadn’t felt like home since her father went North to find work. Lupe’s hope of seeing him in the United States comforts her some, but learning a new language in a new school is tough. Lupe, as much as Margie, is in need of a friend. Little by little, the girls’ individual steps find the rhythm of one shared dance, and they learn what “home” really means. In the tradition of My Name is Maria Isabel—and simultaneously published in English and in Spanish—Alma Flor Ada and her son Gabriel M. Zubizarreta offer an honest story of family, friendship, and the classic immigrant experience: becoming part of something new, while straying true to who you are.